Not sure if Evil Jared got what he expected after he “placed a Russian flag in his pants, rubbed it on his ass, and said to the approving crowd, “Don’t tell Putin.” As Gawker reports, the Bloodhound Gang was subsequently banned from the Kurban music festival and briefly detained at the airport.

The Soviet Union’s most famous First Lady, Raisa Gorbacheva had a marriage that did not end in tragedy, outlasting the dissolution of the USSR. As the Daily Mail writes,

Raisa came along in 1985 to change the dour image of Russian women with her broad-cheeked beauty, poise and charisma, the wives of Soviet leaders had been traditionally built for, er, durability rather than delight. Raisa was no lightweight, however. She was a university professor with a sharp business sense who bestrode the world stage so confidently that she became known as the Jackie Kennedy of the Kremlin.

– Alexandra Romanova and Grigory Rasputin

The Tsarina’s rumored affair with the mad monk is portrayed in the film Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny, and this mystical power couple met a tragic end: multiple attempts were made on Rasputin’s life and he only died after being poisoned (cyanide), shot four times, beaten, and finally drowned.

– Ivan the Terrible and Söyembikä

This power couple was not a couple at all; legend has it that the Söyembikä Tower on Kazan’s Baumann Street was built by Ivan the Terrible on request by the Tatar princess. She told him that she would only marry him if he built her a seven-tier tower. Once the tower was built, Söyembikä climbed to the top and jumped to her death, choosing suicide over a forced marriage to the Tsar.